Re: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state (texlive) [solved]

2006-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:39:25PM +0200, T wrote: On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:53:19 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: One suggestion in earlier threads was to use forcing options with the package tools, but I'm reluctant to do so because I don't understand the implications well. Go ahead and

Re: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state (texlive) [solved]

2006-09-04 Thread T
Glad that you've solved it. Thanks for sharing. On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:29:43 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: ... Probably --force-all would have done it in one shot (since the invocation of mktexlsr was the only thing in the postrm). guess so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Package is in a very bad inconsistent state (texlive)

2006-09-02 Thread Ross Boylan
As several others have reported, the texlive system (which may have been installed from experimental in my case) has gotten into a bad state in which I can neither remove, install, nor reinstall it. The other reports focused on dvipdfmx. With some help from the texlive maintainers, I was able to

Re: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state (texlive)

2006-09-02 Thread T
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:53:19 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: One suggestion in earlier threads was to use forcing options with the package tools, but I'm reluctant to do so because I don't understand the implications well. Go ahead and remove the problematic package via dpkg by force. That's